A big THANK YOU to everyone who sent in food for our Harvest Festival last term. We have received the following letter from The Gap Project at Queens Road Baptist Church:

Dear Andy and all at Foreland Fields School

Re: Harvest Donations received from the school on Wednesday 31st October

I am writing on behalf of The Gap Project to thank everyone at the school for the kind donations of harvest food that the parents, pupils and staff donated to our homeless project.

This will make a great difference to the homeless who come to the project. As well as working with the homeless we have a project working with families in need in the community, so not only will the donations support the homeless we can also support families who require help.

Thanks again for your donations and please pass this on to all the staff, students and parents who kindly brought us these gifts.

Foreland Fields School is proud to be part of The 2018 Big Draw Festival.

In light of changes to Keeping Children Safe in Education, we have updated our Child Protection, Anti-Bullying and Online Safety Policies. These can all be found in the 'Policies' section under the 'About Us' tab.

Throughout the day we have been monitoring the air quality in and around the school, owing to the smoke from the Westwood industrial estate fire. We have now made the decision to keep the pupils/students inside with windows closed. We will continue to monitor in order to ensure the safety of our pupils and students.

A new tab has been set up on the 'Parents' section of this website labelled 'Letters Sent Home'. Here parents/carers can find copies of letters sent home with the date they were sent. Any confidential correspondence will obviously not be posted on the site.

Pupils at Foreland Fields School had a visit on Friday 8th June from Team GB Paralympic athlete, James Barnes-Miller. James was the first ever Paralympic Snowboarder to compete for Team GB. James secured 7th place in snowboard cross and 10th place in the banked slalom at the recent Pyeongchang Winter Olympics.

You will no doubt be aware of the new GDPR regulations. In respect of this we now need to make you aware of the ClassDojo privacy notice and, in particular, that this classroom app is a U.S. based company meaning pupil data may move outside the EU. As such, in compliance with GDPR, parents need to be informed of this fact and give consent.

It is with much sadness that I inform you of the resignation of our Chair of Governors, Grant Mahoney. Grant has been Chair of Governors at the school since September 2015, though had been a governor at the school for a number of years beforehand. Grant informed the Governing Body of his intention to step down as Chair a few weeks ago and resigned from the post at the end of May.